Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century....  Read More >>

I saggi raccolti in Iconografie pirandelliane esplorano una fitta serie di domande relative alle molteplici sfaccettature...  Read More >>

What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare’s language in the...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett’s private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind. Samuel...  Read More >>

This book showcases the importance of ecological themes in modern literature and will appeal to literary scholars,...  Read More >>

The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary...  Read More >>

The eighteenth century produced more inventive actors than fine dramatists, and it displayed its actors to increasing...  Read More >>

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First published in 1934, The Restoration Theatre is a work by Montague Summers that looks at stage plays written...  Read More >>

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This is the text of the 1623 printing of the first folio. The original spelling and punctuation are completely intact....  Read More >>

This is the text of the 1623 printing of the first folio. The original spelling and punctuation are completely intact....  Read More >>

Sex/Crime is a darkly comic queer thriller: an exciting, challenging play that explores sex, violence, language,...  Read More >>

This is the third volume of the critical edition of the Theatre complet by Moliere, in which the texts are based...  Read More >>

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where...  Read More >>

""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer and literary critic, the leading figure of the modernist...  Read More >>

Features a duke who is so anxious about the decline in the moral quality of his subjects' lives that he temporarily...  Read More >>

Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate...  Read More >>

This is a witty tale that plays with traditional gender roles whilst dealing with the politics of brotherhood. Feuding...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Indian Theatre: The Politics of Performance looks at the performance history of Shakespeare productions...  Read More >>

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A direct descendant of John Ridge, Nagle has penned a play that twists and turns from violent outbursts to healing...  Read More >>

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Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants intervenes in scholarly debates in child studies by arguing that the empty bourgeois...  Read More >>